This is a call to adventure for urban gardeners and foragers, biopunks and eco-hackers, amateur singers and ikebana arrangers, gamers and storytellers, as well as anyone else curious about the interaction between plants and humans in cities. We'd like to hear your stories and talk to you about becoming a part of Borrowed Scenery – as an active collaborator, a casual visitor or anything in between. Join FoAM, Claud Biemans, Stevie Wishart and Penelope Turner for an afternoon of music, urban edibles and plant stories. We are hosted by the Electrified project of the Vooruit, Timelab and SMAK.

Borrowed Scenery explores the city from a plant's point of view. It seeks out manifold relationships between the human and vegetal kingdoms, from providing food and energy, to cross-fertilising and purifying the air. Everyday interactions between plants and humans are moulded into a mythical world, inspiring humans to recognise, acknowledge and appreciate urbanised nature. In true stories and alternate histories Borrowed Scenery tickles our imagination about what is and what could be, if all living beings had a voice we could hear. How would environmental thinking develop? What would sciences and arts be like if we could talk to the objects of our research? How would we live if we could directly experience the pain we cause to a forest by clearcutting and pollution? What would our homes and streets look like? What relationships would we have with plants? To explore possible answers to such questions Borrowed scenery travels from everyday reality of an ordinary day in a city, to a wondrous world of 'patabotany' and back again. Both realities exist at the same time on the same streets and in the same rooms, we just have to shift our perception for a few degrees ...

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